Sonus faber Venere 3.0 Loudspeakers (pair)

Sonus faber Venere 3.0 Loudspeakers (pair)

“This combination of beautiful sound, timeless visual style and high build quality wins the Sonus faber Venere 3.0 speakers one of our Exceptional Value Awards for 2013. These are top performers in their price range. ”

— JEFF DORGAY, TONE AUDIO

“The Veneres are well balanced for many types of music, including rock, classical and jazz, as opposed to exceling only at one genre. They reproduce vocals wonderfully, bringing them to the front instead of recessing them into the mix. The bottom line is that the price is right and the speakers provide countless hours of listening pleasure.”

— ROB JOHNSON, TONE AUDIO

The Venere 3.0 is the flagship model in the Venere family delivering unprecedented sound quality that belies its modest price. The Venere 3.0 is a true 3-1/2 way loudspeaker using dual 7" woofers in a unique configuration where one handles the frequencies from 180 Hz down while the other crosses over to the midrange at 220 Hz. This arrangement is capable of producing prodigious bass output, energy and dynamics and the 6" midrange and 1" fabric dome tweeter add to this an exceedingly smooth and musically engaging top end resulting in a lively and coherent presentation.

Suitable for all kinds of music from solo acoustic to heavy metal, the 3.0 will never distort the scale of the performance or lose its sonic composure.

The enclosure is tall and slender incorporating all the same styling and design cues found in each Venere model. The enclosure is highly rigid and devoid of any parallel surfaces allowing for exceptionally clean and clear sound to be produced by the Sonus faber designed driver compliment.

A tempered glass on both the top and base giving the design a sleek and contemporary feel. Adjustable aluminum feet are fitted to the base allowing for both leveling and adjustment of rake as well as coupling to the floor. The loudspeaker is finished in gloss black or white lacquer and is also available in a real Walnut wood finish at a slight upcharge.

The Venere family was designed to be forgiving of placement in the listening environment and for their impressive ability to create the illusion of â€œbox-less sound" and the Model 3.0 is no exception. The 3.0 would be an ideal choice as main left / right speakers in a stereo or home theatre system and is voiced to be used with both the 2.0, 1.5, Center and Wall, allowing for all to be used together in a surround sound system configurations.

Venere by Sonus faberThe role of any loudspeaker is to reproduce an original musical event, making it live again and provide the same emotions we feel when listening to an orchestra, rock band, jazz trio or powerful movie soundtrack. This is why Sonus faber designs speakers as musical instruments, and why we believe great sound depends, to a large extent, on the acoustic chamber - just like a stringed musical instrument.

TechnologyThe Venere series combines Sonus faber's more than 30 years of speaker design with state- of-the-art computer modeling and critical listening sessions. The loudspeaker's enclosure incorporates precision CNC machined pieces that are assembled, and refined manually. Finally, but no less important, are the internal components. All of the drive units are custom-built by the finest international manufacturers for Sonus faber. The crossovers for the Venere series have been designed using component parts of the highest quality - even the speaker terminals are engineered to provide a secure connection to your speaker cable and guarantee the highest quality signal transfer! This careful selection of materials and strict quality control during production ensures the sound quality, cosmetic appearance and durability of the speaker.

DesignThe construction of the acoustic chamber is of great importance to the tonal balance of a loudspeaker. Sonus faber has always been a leader in the development of cabinet shapes and proportions that guarantee exceptional control of internal resonances, driver stability and create an ideal acoustic environment. It was a natural choice that the Venere series to be inspired by the shape of the Lyre. Applied to the form of a speaker, it ensures the absence of parallel internal surfaces, controls air movement inside the cabinet that creates sound that is dynamic, clean, rich in musical detail yet at the same time, highly natural in tone. The successful realization of our sonic requirements and the balance of form and function drove Venere's overall design aesthetic.

The crossover and the driver

Sonus faber is confident that in the end, the best assessment of our design choices is listening with the human ear. This has always been a key principle that has driven the design of our products since the founding of the company. In the research phase, each component is conceived and designed with these criteria in mind. The world's best driver manufacturers craft all Venere drive units to Sonus faber's specific requirements and additional optimizations are carried out during the manufacturing phase providing further enhancements prior to final assembly. Extreme care is taken in the design of the crossover network in an effort to meet our high standards since choices regarding the type of network and component parts combined with the drivers, are fundamental to the sonic performance of the speaker. So while the Venere series is designed using specialized computer software, in the final phase of their development, everything is perfected and reviewed by ear, because the ultimate goal of Sonus faber is to deliver the satisfaction and emotion of music listening.

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